Child Acting

Child Acting

Coogan was tutored until the age of ten, when he entered and other prep schools. He attended several colleges, as well as the. In 1932 he dropped out of  because of poor grades.In November 1933, , a close friend of Coogan's from , was kidnapped from his family-owned department store in San Jose and brought to the area  After several demands for a $40,000 ransom, police arrested Thomas Thurmond and John Holmes in . Thurmond admitted that Hart had been murdered on the night he was kidnapped. Both men were then transferred to a prison in . Later a mob broke into the building; Thurmond and Holmes were then  in an adjacent park. Coogan was reported to be among the mob that prepared and held the lynching rope.^[On May 4, 1935, at age 20, Coogan was the sole survivor of a car crash ino County that took the life of his father and his best friend , a child actor who appeared as  in two early 1930s films.

Child Acting

Child Acting

Child Acting

Child Acting

Child Acting

Child Acting

Child Acting

Child Acting

Child Acting